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At 09:12 PM 10/1/2004, Julie Fuller wrote:
> f you had had that first lump of Froggy's biopsied, and it had been 
> cancer, would you have done anything different?

Good question.  I think maybe I would have tried to have it removed.  I had 
seen other lumps on horses like that, though - we had a mare that had one 
on her throat.  She was a teenager then, I believe, and she was put down 
due to an infected prolapsed uterus when she was in her late 20s.  My 
foster daughter Amber owned her in the last years of the mare's life, so I 
don't know if any other lumps developed, but I do recall the vet just told 
me to watch it, didn't recommend a biopsy.  Of course, in both the mare's 
and Froggies case, there weren't any other lumps developing during their 
working years.  When Froggie started getting more - and there were lots 
more and fairly suddenly - he was quite old, so I wasn't going to biopsy or 
operate.

Sorry, I'm not being very helpful.  Your horse is much younger.  If he was 
mine I might want to know.  The breath/sweating thing could be totally 
unrelated.

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